and let it stew.Nor conservatory, this.Greenhoused phrases do only what dahlias do:sit dormantin a winter room, an eye on spring.

But color speaksan inner language at workwithout: the impatient world weathering downall solidthings and thought till productive and new.

These dahlias soilfeeling—and must. What’s the endin imagining a world that couldn’t re-imagineyou? A stilled life. In a winter room.

Jake Darin is from Orlando, Florida. He holds degrees from the University of Florida, the University of Oregon, and the University of California Hastings College of the Law. Currently, he lives in Anchorage, Alaska.